@sjolsen shit, what do i put here? :blobPikaConfused:

@sjolsen@tech.lgbt help

@sjolsen We are still working on an answer, but nyathing haz come up yet! :neocat_science:

@sjolsen i mostly use the last one as "better check it's not a shitpost before liking"

(have yet to actually open any of those ever again)

@sjolsen "I might need this in the future"
_forgets about it_

@sjolsen last button is "press this button to remember this post for later then immediately forget this post forever"

@sjolsen the one on the right is "this is one of my own posts that I'm particularly proud of and might want to refer to later"

@sjolsen I use the last one when I want to get back to it later (I never get back to it later)

@sjolsen i feel like i use a radically different social media

@sjolsen @djsundog That’s the button for when you find something nice that’s *not* a shitpost.

I’ve used it maybe twice.

@sjolsen@tech.lgbt the bookmark is obviously for posts you want to necroboost later

@sjolsen When I see a reply I made start getting boosted:

@sjolsen The red button opens and closes the garage door of some poor guy in Denver. He’s frustrated and confused.

@sjolsen 💩 📯

@sjolsen

I use the 'bookmark' as a form of archive [mostly when in a hurry]

@sjolsen that's the colors and pictures of animals button for me

@sjolsen

This one's a new button...

' ⚡ Electrify* ' your post ? 🤨

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💥 Actually this is just Thread Your Post button but... in keeping with the above theme for 💩.posts on a #ScienceSunday ⚡💩😂🔬

@sjolsen my buttons look nothing like that.

@sjolsen 😂😂😂

@sjolsen sent, liked and shitposted, I was about using the 4th button but now I'm scared

@sjolsen

The bookmark is like a time-capsule. I bookmark something, and I see it in 2 months when I remember bookmarks exist.

@sjolsen when the flag was added? :thonking:

@sjolsen My working hypothesis is that the red button on the right sends toots you'd like to come back to later to a place where you never go so they can be forgotten in a specific place

@sjolsen
Also, don't forget to press this or else ...

@sjolsen "store in inert atmosphere forever".

@sjolsen "bookmark" ⇒ "add to personal search index"

@sjolsen the last button is "manually register to the search index"

@sjolsen I bookmark my toots when I don't want them to be automatically deleted

@sjolsen :pepe_lmao:

@sjolsen bookmarking is for hoarding :3

@sjolsen@tech.lgbt that last one is "I'm gonna get back to this eventually, I swear "

@sjolsen @chickenwing I didn't recognize the first one and thought it was quote boost. And i was like

*anime voice* "So……… it has come to this"

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read receipt sent

@sjolsen That last one kind of looks like a snake's tongue -- so maybe it's used to taste the air around a post?

@sjolsen the red one puts it on a special list of cool posts

@sjolsen it's if you want to go back to something later. but nobody actually goes back to the something later, you just try searching for it to no avail instead!

so, basically it's neurotypicals only

@sjolsen I always press red for the sake of all the scientists working to unravel its function!

@sjolsen@tech.lgbt On misskey and its forks we have two shitpost buttons, "reply" and "reaction" ​:blobcatpop:​

@sjolsen

It's the "I will reply to this post later when I have more time, but in reality will not get around to it, and eventually just remove it again in 80% of cases to avoid necro-posting" button.

AKA the "I will show this amusing and/or interesting post to my partner/kids in person later, because forwarding posts to non-Mastodon users is inconsistent and kinda kludgy" button.

@sjolsen
The last one is for the case when you feel too asocial to boost it right now, but still like the post.

And i have a long list under that category.

@sjolsen A lot of people like this toot.

@sjolsen for me that mysterious last button is "I should come back to this!"
*Forgets about it 2 seconds later*

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@sjolsen the last one for me is "recipe post recall" button.

@sjolsen no entiendo jaja

@sjolsen That button at right is "server, please don't delete this post even if it is more than 6 months old", to my opinion.

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that is fucking true!

@sjolsen The bookmark button is for stuff you want to send to people who are asleep

@sjolsen I use the star as ‘like’ and the boost as ‘love’.

I have exactly one bookmarked post. Forgot what it was, but I remember using it, because it was just a special moment for me to press the button for the first time.

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Reminds me to review my many bookmarks. I wish they were sortable into lists.

…I dare not look, it’s probably full with the articles I told myself I’d read but didn’t …

@sjolsen the red one might be a "remind me later" function

@sjolsen@tech.lgbt bookmarked this just to see what happens

@sjolsen the one on the right is the only way to find a post from a few days or months ago.

@sjolsen Bookmark is to save posts for later.

Like is for telling the poster that you saw/liked/appreciated their post.

Boost is for showing interesting things to your followers.

If you comment, there's probably no need to also like, but you might still want to boost.

I'm very bad at following my own system, but I try.

@sjolsen Bookmark a podcast, a paper, a meme I like, a recipe...
I'd like to have folders. Sometimes I have to search for a while to found what I want.

@sjolsen the one on the right is for all the good lewds you find so you can look at them again later for reasons

@sjolsen the bookmark button - "add to yet another untouched read-later list, also get a minor dopamine boost over a feeling of control over your destiny (a lie)"

@sjolsen Service reference for ice cube users:

@sjolsen KEIZOZKGBBSHFJEJAOFJEJDJHQLEJZHFKIFBDJFOGJZODLABDPFVDIALSLFKSOGJ

@sjolsen I'have selected the last button just to make a try but... nothing seem to happen

@sjolsen i usually use boost and star as a combo thing. I rarely use either separately. sometimes star as a read receipt for replies to me that I vaguely appreciate, but don't necessarily wanna share

@sjolsen the last one is "I'll masturbate to this later"

@sjolsen ok I laughed at "send read receipt", a nervous kind of laughing

@sjolsen The last button is "read later (never)"

@sjolsen I still have no idea what that bookmark thingy is supposed to be and what purpose it actually serves, is it meaningless? What does it even do?

@sjolsen the bookmark button is for saving a post to boost in most hilarious moments.

Or to save and later re-boost own posts that got lots of favs

@sjolsen the leading theory on the mystery button is that it's related to some kind of ancient fertility ritual

@sjolsen nono, star is "like, but you forgot alt text" 😆

@sjolsen favourite is what I use when it's either something I figure most of my followers aren't interested in seeing or a way to say "nice image you have there, shame you didn't caption it, better luck remembering next time"

@sjolsen 🍻 🤣 👍

@sjolsen
Sorry for shitposting, but I'll like to thank you for this advice.

@sjolsen a bit opinionated but quite true. The star and its label looks like "like" but does not much in that respect. There are rumours that the star influences the "discover" feature, but who has time for looking at that... @galileo

@sjolsen yeah this exactly how i use it

@sjolsen The last button is for posts that will be placed in my grave so I can have reading material in the afterlife.

@sjolsen that fourth button is “pretend I’ll read this again”.

@sjolsen the red one is for bookmarks. It saves the post for future reference.

Not as useful on the fediverse, especially as it doesn't work like a "private like" like on Xitter, and there's way less drama here to pull them out for later.